Blood Meridian

Book Playlist

Blood Meridian Playlist

by Cormac McCarthy

19 tracks

balanced

Jun 17, 2026

5 mixes for this book

This playlist captures the brutal, vast, and haunting landscape of "Blood Meridian," mirroring its violent historical context and complex characters through a blend of cinematic instrumentals and evocative vocal tracks. The instrumental selections evoke the stark and desolate American Southwest, while the vocal songs reflect the raw human emotions and moral ambiguity threaded through the novel.

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Track List

19 songs

1

Drylands

Inner Sanctum · Drylands

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2

Hunting For Witches - A-Negative Remix

A-Negative · Beholder EP

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3

Desert of Ice

Terry Riley · Terry Riley: Shri Camel

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4

Beregi

Dmitry Evgrafov · Beregi

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5

I WHO BEND THE TALL GRASSES

Lingua Ignota · SINNER GET READY

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6

Aging Young Women

Anna von Hausswolff · ICONOCLASTS

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7

The Long Road

elveper · The Long Road

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8

Prowler

Bohren & Der Club Of Gore · Sunset Mission

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9

Poor Wayfaring Stranger (arr. for Chorus by Alexander Lloyd Blake)

Johnny Cash · Songs of Remembering

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10

The Curse

Josh Ritter · So Runs The World Away

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11

Wolves

Phosphorescent · Pride

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12

Black Rock

Blitzen Trapper · Black River Killer

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13

Little Black Submarines

Twinkle Twinkle Little Rock Star · Lullaby Versions of The Black Keys

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14

When the Man Comes Around

Peter Jezewski · Peter Jezewski Sings Johnny Cash

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15

Tangled Up In Blue - Live, Los Angeles 1978

Bob Dylan · Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles – 3rd June 1978 (Live From Universal Amphitheatre, LA)

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16

Far from Any Road

The Handsome Family · Singing Bones

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17

S.O.B.

Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats · Best Of The 10s: Alternative

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18

Down in the Valley

The Head And The Heart · The Head And The Heart (15th Anniversary Edition)

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19

Let’s Get Wasted

Luminary Flux · Dream Department

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